Befana’s Chocolate Bundt Cake

Traditional and Thermomix Recipe.
How delicious and colorful the chocolate bundt cake, ideal for snacks for our kids.
Easy to make and I assure you it will finish quickly.
The chocolate bundt cake is also a basic recipe even without a topping.
You can cover it with the classic Nutella or with chocolate custard cream.
Everyone can vary the topping: for instance, my nieces and nephews sprinkle some condensed milk over it, or you can serve it with a scoop of coconut ice cream, or even with fruit compotes.

Ingredients Befana’s Chocolate Bundt Cake

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4.6 oz sugar
5 eggs (at room temperature)
5.6 tbsp butter (softened)
3.5 tbsp sunflower oil
1 tbsp vanilla powdered sugar
1.2 cups all-purpose flour
1 packet baking powder
1 pinch salt
5.3 oz dark chocolate
as needed colored sprinkles
3.5 oz Nutella®

Befana’s Chocolate Bundt Cake

Tools

Here’s what we need to make the

1 Electric whisk or the Thermomix
3 Bowls
1 Cake pan ring mold 9.5 inches
1 Chopper

Steps

Preliminaries to make the

Preheat the oven to 356°F, static, butter and flour a ring mold cake pan (Ø 9.5 inches) and set aside.
Place the sugar in your blender cup and pulverize it.
Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
In another bowl, put the egg whites and salt and whip them until stiff, then set aside.
Let’s move on to the chocolate: place the chocolate pieces in the blender or chopper and chop finely.
Transfer it to a large glass bowl, along with the butter and the sunflower oil, then melt in the microwave or double boiler.
Once the mixture has liquefied, add the powdered sugar set aside, the vanilla sugar, and the egg yolks, mix with the beaters. Once the mixture is homogeneous…
add the all-purpose flour and baking powder sifted together, and mix again.
Gradually fold in the whipped egg whites, gently to prevent them from deflating, using a pastry spatula with movements from bottom to top.
Transfer everything to the prepared cake pan
and bake in the hot oven for 30-35 minutes (356°F).
Remove the cake pan from the oven, unmold the chocolate bundt cake onto a wire rack, and let it cool completely.
You can make the chocolate custard cream by following my recipe, click here.
Alternatively, once the cake has cooled, you can warm up the Nutella in the microwave or double boiler and then spread it over the entire surface.
Sprinkle colored sprinkles or granules to taste.
After finishing decorating the chocolate bundt cake, put it in the fridge for 20 minutes to solidify the surface, then take it out and serve.
Place the sugar in the bowl and pulverize it: 20 sec./speed 10. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
Now position the butterfly inside the bowl, and add the egg whites and salt.
Whip to stiff peaks: 4 min./speed 3.5.
Once the egg whites are stiff, remove the butterfly, and transfer the whipped egg whites to a bowl and set aside. Let’s move on to the chocolate: Place the chocolate pieces in the bowl, chop: 10 sec./speed 7.
Gather at the bottom with a spatula, and add the butter and sunflower oil, then melt with the basket in place of the measuring cup: 5 min./122°F/speed 1.
Once the mixture has liquefied, add the powdered sugar set aside, the vanilla sugar, and the egg yolks, mix: 10 sec./speed 3.
Add the all-purpose flour and baking powder sifted together, and mix with the measuring cup: 10 sec./speed 3.
Now remove the bowl from its base and gently fold the chocolate mixture into the egg whites with a pastry spatula, using bottom-to-top movements to prevent deflating.
Transfer everything into the prepared cake pan and bake in the hot oven for 30-35 minutes (356°F). Remove the cake pan from the oven
unmold the chocolate bundt cake onto a wire rack and let it cool completely
For the topping, you can make the chocolate custard cream by following my recipe, click here.
Alternatively, once the cake has cooled, you can warm up the Nutella in the microwave or double boiler and then spread it over the entire surface.
Sprinkle colored sprinkles or granules to taste.
Put the chocolate bundt cake in the fridge for 20 minutes to solidify the surface, then take it out and serve